Surprised wrote:I don't think it was a case of "I'm not confident"
More a case of "I know I earn 100k plus a week but I really can't be arsed to step up for my country as I'm a piece of shite and a coward"
While there are possibly a few international players who fit your penalty declining stereotype, I'm sure that the majority of the actual and potential refusniks simply find the pressure gets to them.
Perhaps you're just having a bad day rather than a true believer in what you've written. After all an analogy would be to argue that anyone suffering from manic depression should simply pull themselves together, and I'm sure that you aren't a member of that school of thought.